All 1,610 beds on campus are reserved. The University houses
850 freshmen and sophomores in Mary Ward and Mary Park halls
and 760 juniors, seniors and graduate students in the Village
at Centennial Square. Students have been moving into the Village
throughout the month.

SFSU has also placed 80 students in 20 apartments adjacent
to campus in an area of The Villas Parkmerced apartment community,
to help accommodate the high demand for student housing. SFSU
holds master leases on these units.

The
SFSU Foundation Inc. owns an additional 180 units in The
Villas
Parkmerced, to be leased to SFSU students, faculty and
staff. About 40 of these units are currently leased to SFSU
students. These units only become available to the SFSU community
as tenants who occupied the units before the Foundation's
2000 and 2001 purchases move out. Those tenants still in Parkmerced
continue to be protected by San Francisco rent-control laws.

WHO:
About
850 SFSU freshmen and sophomores will move into Mary Ward
and Mary Park halls. Many of their parents will also
be on hand. The first 250 students, along with as many as 500
family members, will take part in an early orientation program
called Welcome Home and move in Friday, Aug. 22.

Welcome
Home helps ease the transition to campus residential life
for students and their parents with a two-day program
that includes workshops on such topics as safety, stress and
time management, and financial planning. Students will also
have the opportunity to meet new friends through an ice cream
social, interactive games, and trips to Fisherman's Wharf,
Golden Gate Park and city neighborhoods such as the Haight
and West Portal.